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the boehner, obama, biden talks, et cetera, do you get the sense there's a consensus on at least half of what needs to be done? >> there's consensus on the ckets of things that need to be involved but the message we were getting o of the biden talks is while the people at the talks felt they were moving forward there were people outside the talks who were not seeing this thing getting where it needed to go. republicans in particular thought the administration was not giving enough on discretionary cu up front which is where they count the most if you... you've got to start cutting the budget in 2012 and if if you put the cuts off until the out years republicans aren't convinced that's real. so it's not clear to what we believed was even sort of a consensus building in the biden talks was holding together outside of that room. and now we've got a consensus, i think, of the... if we want to go big that means we've got to tackle entitlements, we've got to do taxes and a lot on discretionary cuts. but it's hard to see that anybody has actually given. we've heard pelosi today reaffirm we'r
the boehner, obama, biden talks, et cetera, do you get the sense there's a consensus on at least half of what needs to be done? >> there's consensus on the ckets of things that need to be involved but the message we were getting o of the biden talks is while the people at the talks felt they were moving forward there were people outside the talks who were not seeing this thing getting where it needed to go. republicans in particular thought the administration was not giving enough on...
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you get biden deal deal or would be the $4 trillion those out trillion pretty now, the way them. saying they the what happens recriminations happen press writing our that guarantee you we end up doing. >> but it will be, the president at the senate, what he wanted to be that will be that will >> the adult at the centre. >> clearly what the white trying to do, january, since you have position being being he's not, the adverse tof his own en very that there are they should might not want the part of their progressive goals. don't get spending under do some of things that the want to dor exciting economy, or future or they have. want to ability to do that they bond market them no, no, no. >> rose: can the president chuck, because out he was what he does with entitlement cuts? >> you know, i think he can little bit go back to simpson was and today when i-- i asked on bowles wanted credit for creating the commission. making that, fine, but endorse their outcome. of last grabbed that, owning it the end of a lot of white house, believe would have big deal ultimately the one republican t
you get biden deal deal or would be the $4 trillion those out trillion pretty now, the way them. saying they the what happens recriminations happen press writing our that guarantee you we end up doing. >> but it will be, the president at the senate, what he wanted to be that will be that will >> the adult at the centre. >> clearly what the white trying to do, january, since you have position being being he's not, the adverse tof his own en very that there are they should might...
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so whether or not you get some sort of biden deal which is amiddle deal or mcconnell which would be the weakest one or a $4 trillion deal, in all othose out comes with the $4 trillion seeming to be ptty farfetched right now, the white house looks the way that it falls for them. and as chuck was saying they kind of prepped the battlefield for what happens when recriminations happen and we all in the press corp. start writing our bong tick toks that charlie i can guarantee you we end up doing. >> but it will be, the president at the centre, i mean where he's wanted to be in this debate that will be the perception, that will develop? >> the adult at the centre. i thin that's >> clearly what the white house has be trying to do, really since january, sin kind of daily-- you have seen them try to pition the president as being reasonable, as being rational, and he's not,he president is not adverse to telling members of his own party and he's been very clear on that that therere some things that they should do that they might not want to do now but for the long-term are part of their shared pro
so whether or not you get some sort of biden deal which is amiddle deal or mcconnell which would be the weakest one or a $4 trillion deal, in all othose out comes with the $4 trillion seeming to be ptty farfetched right now, the white house looks the way that it falls for them. and as chuck was saying they kind of prepped the battlefield for what happens when recriminations happen and we all in the press corp. start writing our bong tick toks that charlie i can guarantee you we end up doing....
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and why is it the o biden commission y ask it the obama commission. ople in the white house will say once he gets involved it becomes superpolarizing and it all falls apart. i think that is a bit of a rationalization think is one they have used too much to put him back in the shadows. and i just wish i few whetr it company could dprs some sort of deep sense of caution that he doesn't want to put himself out there or for some other reason. i simply don't know. >> i think his parting position is cautious. it's bridge building. that is his upbringing, that's his early work experience. that's his starting position, his foundation. but then he has these spasmsing almost, of leadership, of risk-taking. i mean taking out osa bin laden was a big risk and he went against the counsel of many of the people closest to him. he took a major risk on that that could have blown up big time. he's taken some risk in the middle east. he's really gone quite far inupporting e arab spring. on health care right at the end, we did see energetic leadership but then he seems to
and why is it the o biden commission y ask it the obama commission. ople in the white house will say once he gets involved it becomes superpolarizing and it all falls apart. i think that is a bit of a rationalization think is one they have used too much to put him back in the shadows. and i just wish i few whetr it company could dprs some sort of deep sense of caution that he doesn't want to put himself out there or for some other reason. i simply don't know. >> i think his parting...
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so let's say that what the biden groups were talking about, 2.5 trillion over 10 and all of a sudden we have $300 billion a year more in interests cts. we're $500 biion behind why we were whenhat he started. that's why it has to be somewhere around $5 trillion over the next 10 years just to ensure what's going to happen with interest costs. there's no way bernanke can keep that down. there's no way he will in the face of the finance that's going on in terms of the sovereign demand that's going to be out there and who we're going to be seating with in terms of debt. there's no way the interest tes are goi to stay where they are today. no way. >> charlie: thought the figure y have cite before er the next ten years wehave to find $9.7 trillion in cuts. >> we do have to. >> charlie: 9.7 trillion. >> if we're at a point of no return over the next ten years we have to find 9.7. is 9.7 doable now? no, but 5 trillion is and that buys us five years where we can find the next 4.7 over that. our first hurdle is this. how do we send a message to the international financial community that we in f
so let's say that what the biden groups were talking about, 2.5 trillion over 10 and all of a sudden we have $300 billion a year more in interests cts. we're $500 biion behind why we were whenhat he started. that's why it has to be somewhere around $5 trillion over the next 10 years just to ensure what's going to happen with interest costs. there's no way bernanke can keep that down. there's no way he will in the face of the finance that's going on in terms of the sovereign demand that's going...
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you'll sit here and you'll look here and there have been vice president joe biden and secretary gates and panetta and if it's about afghanistan david petraeus and secretary clinton. it's quite a... >> rose: hav youhang the process in. >> yes, i think we have changed the process. i think that, again, it's the excluse process. everybody agrees it is. we've fully integrated, by the way, the vice presidential national security staff and the presidential national security staff so we don't conflicts there. the same people advise the president on iraq, for example, advise the vice president. we've committed, as i said, to have a view get to the president in a timely way. we've committed to have... if we have a mting today, within 24 hours the results of that eting are circulate to the principals. i meet once aeek for lunch with the secretary of defense and the secretary of state. so there's quite a bit of integration. >> rose: tell me what best in your background prepared you for. >> oh, i don't know. a deep interest. i've been working on foreign policy issues for, you know, almost two deca
you'll sit here and you'll look here and there have been vice president joe biden and secretary gates and panetta and if it's about afghanistan david petraeus and secretary clinton. it's quite a... >> rose: hav youhang the process in. >> yes, i think we have changed the process. i think that, again, it's the excluse process. everybody agrees it is. we've fully integrated, by the way, the vice presidential national security staff and the presidential national security staff so we...
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there's an alternative argument which is not do that, not have a surge and, in fact, articulated by joe biden the vice president which said "make it counterterrorism not counterinsurgency." >> absutely. and that kind of an argument just infiltrated the white house. bruce rydell, who wrote his first report on afghanistan told us that... terrific, terrific guy and he told us that vietnam walked the halls of the white house. wherever he bumped into somebody he would bump into somebody who would say, hey, is this vietnam? obama himself, charlie, would on occasion, we were told, stop in to the office of one of his senior advisors at the white house, is close the door, sit at the edge of the guy's desk and say "am i doing what lyndon johnson did in the '60s? we cannot do that." >> rose: with afghanistan? >> with afghanistan. am i doingin afghanistan gha what lyndon johnson did in vietnam 40 years before. >> rose: my assumption in the surge in part-- and you assume he thinks it has strategic significance and importance there because you don't want afghanistato be a haven for terrism d at the same ti
there's an alternative argument which is not do that, not have a surge and, in fact, articulated by joe biden the vice president which said "make it counterterrorism not counterinsurgency." >> absutely. and that kind of an argument just infiltrated the white house. bruce rydell, who wrote his first report on afghanistan told us that... terrific, terrific guy and he told us that vietnam walked the halls of the white house. wherever he bumped into somebody he would bump into...